Bullshit! These are nothing but ALf people under a different name. They are cut from the bolt of cloth that those who drove spikes into trees to either kill or seriously injure loggers that hit them with their saws. I am with the Japanese on this.
That’s kinda my whole point. These people are NOT anything like Eco terrorists that slam spikes in trees where an innocent person could get injured.
I can’t believe the good folks that are most of the FR would return us to the days where elephants were slaughtered for a pair of ivory tusks.
Those poachers are now shot and killed. The elephants may not make it anyway.
The supreme law in effect at this time is that there is a COMPLETE BAN on commercial whaling by the IWC, of which Japan is a member.
I didn’t make the ban, ask me what my opinion would be if there were no
ban. The phoniest crap of all is these rusting whale slaughtering factories posing as research vessels. What a hoot. Right in there with Dr. Mengele doing research at Auscwitz, although, yes, humans including the unborn are far more important.
Maybe I wouldn’t be as in awe of these creatures had one not surfaced next to my sailboat as she was moored in Monterey Bay. I also think elephants are a pretty awesome species.
To say what the Japanese are doing is legal is to buy into their phony research sham. If they’re not legal, then they’re poachers as Captain Watson has said.
Ronald Reagan saw throught the whalers and threatened retaliation if the Japanese did not abide by the ruled of the IWC of which they are members. They caved and stopped whaling for years.
Is President Reagan to be praised for his action? After all, he shut down the livelihood of all those fine Japanese whale hunters.
Why can’t I order a piano with real ivory or buy elephant ivory?
Because the vision of a herd of elephants slaughtered for their tusks is a sickening vision to most of the world.
And the vision of these poachers slaughtering these magnificent mammals in the name of “research” is also sickening to a lot of the world.
I remember seeing Keiko (willy) in Newport Oregon. What a beautiful intelligent mammal he clearly was. I was sad to hear of his passing.
I know what violence and terror is, so when you call these often times admittedly hapless activists terrorists, you dilute the strength and meaning of the word.
All the comments about the Gil in motion and not a single comment from the other video that shows the thug whalers making hard to starboard at the very last moment.
And then cannon hosing the survivors? What am I missing here? Will somebody please defend the righteous indignation the elephant poachers in Africa are entitled to as they are only trying to make a living?
God bless you Ronald Reagan. You used the power of your office to save thousands of these magnificent creatures. Were you still in office I doubt these activist would have to be the court of last resort as these majestic creatures are spared their lives only by a small group of humans risking theirs.
Dennis Miller is a pretty funny guy and a great conservative in many ways, but I feel sorry that he professes no awe for what nature gives us.
He talked about Caribou like, you seen one you seen’em all. Miller, I wish you and every poster herein could stand next to a thundering herd of thousands of Caribou as they stampede by.
I wish people would develop a reverance for these whales as well.
Yeah. The whalers decks might get smelly. Big wow.